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Scott Silverman practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and environmental advisory. He graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a B.A. and earned his J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. Mr. Silverman is admitted to practice in California.

The Guide to Doing Business in China provides an introduction to selected aspects relating to investment and business operations in the People’s Republic of China under current Chinese laws and policy during the COVID pandemic, including a summary of important areas of concern to all investors in China: mergers and acquisitions, data privacy issues, antitrust and competition issues, taxation, employment, intellectual property protection, trade and import and export rules, financial services, as well as anti-bribery compliance and dispute resolution issues.

A bold vision of the future is redefining corporate strategy for businesses in Asia Pacific, with new opportunities arising from disruption. In this series of reports, we explore the defining characteristics of transactions, using the Strategy, Competition, Assets, Process, and ESG framework to understand legal complexity and stress test plans in an evolving landscape.

Chinese government authorities have recently issued a series of policies and draft amendments to push forward the establishment of the Social Credit System (SCS). Multinational companies are particularly concerned at how the SCS could affect the business operation of their Chinese subsidiaries. The following are selected developments released by various…

On March 15, 2019, the National People’s Congress (NPC) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) passed the Foreign Investment Law of the People’s Republic of China (the “Foreign Investment Law”). The Foreign Investment Law will come into effect on January 1, 2020. The Foreign Investment Law was formulated to further expand opening up…